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21 Feb 2020
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The Desire to Move Forward

Yeshaia Blakeney
Addiction, Blog, Rehabilitation Process, The Field of Treatment, Therapy, Video, Yeshaia Blakeney

When I'm working as an addiction or spiritual counselor, clients want to climb the ladder of treatment. They want to move forward in their lives, which is understandable. We all want that direction.    And that idea of moving forward in treatment--that's a therapeutic issue. I don't mean that as an evasion. Our conception of what it means to move forward is a therapeutic issue.    How do I answer clients when they ask, "When is it time to...

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21 Jan 2020
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How Long Do I Need Addiction Treatment?

Yeshaia Blakeney
Addiction, Blog, Rehabilitation Process, The Field of Treatment, Therapy, Video, Yeshaia Blakeney

One of the questions that people have when seeking treatment is how long do I need to do it?   I'm always trying to empower people by thinking deeply about their questions. If you put that question in perspective it’s more like: How long is it going to take for me to change? There isn't an exact number of days that you can say.   Is 30 Days Enough?   There's a model out there for 30-day treatment. What is that...

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17 Jan 2020
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Interventions and Recovery: a Process

Adam Mindel
Addiction, Blog, Rehabilitation Process, The Field of Treatment, Therapy, Video, Yeshaia Blakeney
Adam Mindel Interventionist with patient

As I look back over the last several months of working with individuals and families towards recovery, I promise I am terribly understating when I describe interventions as a process versus an event. All interventions are a process, I promise you, and I promise you so is recovery. Firsthand, I reflect on my nearly 17-year journey of recovery and recognize the years I spent in my addiction leading up to my current sobriety as all...

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15 Dec 2019
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The Reality of Treatment Success Rates

Yeshaia Blakeney
Addiction, Blog, Rehabilitation Process, The Field of Treatment, Therapy, Video, Yeshaia Blakeney

Coming to treatment has always been a hard threshold to cross - but more so now… Working in treatment for a long time, I’ve experienced greater consumer wariness.   People are more hesitatnt to send their loved ones to treatment and ppl who are looking for treatment are more hesitatant to come. I think one of the reasons is the discourse about addiction, treatment and recovery has hit the mainstream, and one of the things that has...

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26 Nov 2019
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Dogma in AA: Trusting in the Spirit of Reality

Yeshaia Blakeney
Addiction, Blog, Rehabilitation Process, The Field of Treatment, Therapy, Video, Yeshaia Blakeney

Dogma is not actually something I would want to get rid of within Alcoholics Anonymous.   I would also say dogma is not something that I want to get rid of in alcoholics anonymous. On some level, what it means to be a person in recovery, who's engaged in traditional 12 steps is to have some sense of acceptance, that you are not in charge of the world.   And it's sort of like trusting the spirit of...

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